The landscape of free fermionic gauge models.

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dc.contributor.advisorCleaver, Gerald B.
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Douglas G., 1988-
dc.contributor.departmentPhysics.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsBaylor University. Dept. of Physics.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-11T13:59:46Z
dc.date.available2014-06-11T13:59:46Z
dc.date.copyright2014-05
dc.date.issued2014-06-11
dc.description.abstractA software framework is developed to systematically construct a particular class of weakly coupled free fermionic heterotic string models, dubbed gauge models. In their purest form, these models are maximally supersymmetric (N = 4), and thus only contain superpartners in their matter sector. This feature makes their systematic construction particularly efficient, and they are thus useful in their simplicity. We first provide a brisk introduction to heterotic strings and the spin-structure construction of free fermionic models. Three systematic surveys are then presented, and we conjecture that these surveys are exhaustive modulo redundancies. Finally we present a collection of metaheuristic algorithms for searching the landscape for models with a user-specified spectrum of phenomenological properties, e.g. gauge group and number of spacetime supersymmetries. Such algorithms provide the groundwork for extended generic free fermionic surveys.en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/9090
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisheren
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectString theory.en_US
dc.subjectLandscape surveys.en_US
dc.subjectHeterotic strings.en_US
dc.subjectFree fermionic.en_US
dc.subjectGauge models.en_US
dc.subjectThe gauge framework.en_US
dc.titleThe landscape of free fermionic gauge models.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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